Wolves of Roma

Prince of Roma- Chapter 26

Chapter 26
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Evy continued to stare out of her window as the car sped by she took in the  structure on the opposite hill. She could tell just from the outline she could see that this was a massive stone based structure and had multiple levels and large windows adorning the walls.

The car slowed down and turned in to a stone bridge, this bridge joined both the hills and connected the road to the Palace of Roma.

Her car slowly crossed the bridge as the massive roundabout came in to view and in the middle of the roundabout with intricate finely carved statues of men and wolves and some amazing water fountains. Straight ahead from the roundabout one hundred meters away was a massive gate, she assumed was the entrance to the palace. It was grand and magnificent, teasing glance of the splendor waiting inside. But there were vehicle barricades in the path of the gate, preventing any vehicle from going in.

Her car instead of going in to that road straight ahead like she assumed, turned right on to a smaller road which followed the outer wall of the palace. Evy was disappointed, where were they going? She thought they would have been let through the barricade, but obviously not.

On one side was a fifteen feet wall, the outer perimeter of the palace and on the other side of the road was a valley, not sure how deep and the car slowed down further as they came across a narrow gap in the wall, you would miss it unless you knew what you were looking for.

The car crawled in to the narrow passage, there was hardly a couple of feet space on either side and on both sides was a daunting high wall ran along the path, hardly any sunlight made in to that path. As they crawled for about ten feet the car stopped. Up ahead was a gate? If you could call it that, it was a solid iron gate about ten feet high.

She saw the driver side window roll down and there was some kind of reader on the driver side of the wall, which she did not notice before. The driver swiped a card and the reader beeped as a small red light on it turned green. She also just noticed a camera mounted about ten feet high, at a perfect angle to look at the car.

Sound reverberated on the narrow road as the gate rumbled and both half's of the gate opened outwards. It looked like it lead in to some underground tunnel, but was well lit by lights mounted on the top of the passage. The car lurched forward and slowly moved in to the tunnel, she turned and looked back as the gate was closing behind them.

This tunnel twisted and turned but was clearly going down and finally it widened and split in to three lanes. Two lanes headed left and one lane barricaded by an automatic barrier turned right. The car turned in to the right lane and again the driver swiped his card on a device mounted on the side as the barrier rose jerkily.

The car continued to crawl for about five minutes and then the path finally lead to an underground cellar of sorts. There were cars parked in one end and on the other was a glass room? Her car was heading there and she saw there were few people waiting in front of the glass enclosure and inside the glass enclosure were two elevators, old style, the one with collapsible doors a scissor gate style and brass handles.

Her car rolled to stop in front of the glass foyer if she could call it that. The moment the car stopped one of the men waiting swiftly opened the door for her to get out.

She scooted out of the car and Sebastian also stepped out.

A few men waiting walked over to the boot to retrieve the luggage.

"Good morning ma'am!" A well-dressed man smiled at her and gave a small bow "My name is Jonathan, I am head of the butler service at the palace, I shall escort you to your room" He told her and looked at Sebastian "Mr. Knowles" He greeted him politely.